Word: villainizing
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...served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence Service, he was promptly and successfully prosecuted by Attorney General Inskip. Since 1934, Sir Thomas has become the villain of an entire literature penned by indignant Britons who contend that an act which he put through the House of Commons destroyed all that is summed up by the old saw, "An Englishman's house is his castle." Under the Inskip act, as yet unenforced in full, British police...
...VILLAIN NEED BE-Vardis Fisher- Doubleday, Doran & Caxton...
...Tuesday the convention was ready to pick heroes and villains. No. 1 hero was Massachusetts' longtime (1917-35) Commissioner of Education Payson Smith, no friend of his State's widely abominated teachers' oath law, who was booted out of his job last autumn with the approval of Governor James Michael Curley. With but three dissenting votes, the cheering, clapping convention voted to condemn Villain Curley. Condemned also was the Federal statute forbidding teachers in District of Columbia schools to ''teach or advocate Communism...
...plot of this latest release is weak in many places. The trailer announcing it was perfectly fair in promising that only the detective know the answer to the questions presented. The audience was able to pick out the logical villain but even the denouement at the end is almost entirely disconnected from the evidence in the proceeding scenes. Chan is also spoiling the use of Chinese proverbs as a means of building character interest and is using fourth-rate ones in the present case. The minor roles, except for Herbert Mundin who plays the part of Baxter, the butler...
...songs, although pleasing, are not noteworthy. Miss Swarthout and for that matter, even John Boles deserves better treatment However, Miss Swarthout is thoroughly charming throughout whether singing or acting, and the movie seems to have recorded her voice with considerable fidelity. Charles Bedford as usual makes a disagreeable villain, and Willie Howard and Herb Williams carry off the straight comedy parts with a great mastery and gust...